Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-11

worker. and plac ng 1t where the enemy
VIII step on 1t. That will turn his COWS
milk into blood with neatness and dis
patch.
ut 10 a serious undertaking to eaten
morse THIEF ami Recover the horse, put
either Mother Eoske OF Dame ftsher VIII
not nesitatp a moment 10 do both If the
owner OF the missing animal Will. IS a
simple evidence OF good faith, give her
taree hairs from It's tail TO START with.
Ihe pairs must be picked UP in the empty
slall, not hairs that might have been Kept
on hama IN case of an emergency. This
Is not always a very easy thing TO dc, as
stolen horses are not in the nabit OF tax
ing the precautiOn of leaving three hairs
behind them IN their stalls TO insure their
rescue from the thief. Ii the hairs are
obtained, however, all Snat remain 20 be
done is to cut them into equal lengths,
Knot them together in the middle, and
then light them at DOth ends. Before they
are lighted, though, 1t must be sunset, In
the stable yard, and the hair must be
laid on a shovel. Whichever way the TWO
ends of the hair turn as they burn VIII In
dlcate the direction taken by the thief.
The stub ends are then to be buried in the
barnyard, where the sun will shine on the
spot when it rises. After this has all
been done, the horse thief, wherever he
may be, finds that, try as he Will, he
cannot get away beyond certain limit,
aud the first thing be knows he is turning
about and driving or riding directly back
tn the barn from which re stole the horse,
IN spite OF himself. All the owner has
got TO 90 is to watch Tor his coming anu
nab him when he comes.
some OF the jobs that requires nice work
on the part OF the wonder worker is tne
separation OF man and wife, which seems
to be another favorite way these farmers
have of seeking vengeance for wrong
done them. Tee designing and hearlless
person who would tear man and wife
asunder, must first get hair from tue
head OF IA woman whose hair il the oppo-
site in color to that of the wife of the man
in whose family the separation Is d.
sired. The hair, however, must under no
circumstances b. rcd, Tnen the simple
fact must be ascertained as to Which was
born the nearest to running water, the
husband or the wife. Whichever one it
may be, that is the one who must be
operated upon. something that tue hus-
band aud wife have both worn at
some time in their lives must be
secured and burned and the hair held in
the smoke that arises, The smoked hairs
mission is then TO be buried at the side of
the house where the doomed couple live,
40 that water from the caves may drop
on the spot. The name of the person VINO
is being operated upon is then written on
a piece OF paper and buried where the
shadow OF something cast by the light Of
tae moon Will fall upoa it. Ii the man
and vile do not Immediately quarrel, and
the quarrel is not followed by the wife
packing up and returning to her fathers
after all that, it ls prima facie evidence
that the operator was little short OF
faith in the infallibil1ty of the spell, and
a hmm RI foil 40
signs until he stands in an east wind for
three successive days and prays fer
vently for abiding faith in the power of
the witch woman"